Tickyboom thing
I just found the most bizarre code comment ever in one of the files on the site I’m currently working on.
/*Not sure what this does but if you comment it out the little tickyboom thing stops ticking and goes boom.*/
I honestly have absolutely no idea what that’s supposed to mean, or what it’s referring to. [...]
July 3, 2009
• Tags: bad programming, computing, insanity, programming, wtf • Posted in: Computers, Software • No Comments
Behold! the bad programming being hidden by lazy programming
Someone just pointed me at Aliant’s search facility, which produces this error when you try to search for anything containing an apostrophe, < or >.
Now, this sort of thing really annoys me, because it tells me several things about their developers:
They don’t believe their underlying code is secure, because they’re displaying errors for completely harmless [...]